I truly love my AP900 GTO3 which I bought from the original owner a couple of years ago. However, I cannot get accurate GoTos no matter what I try. I use solely the had controller with the upgraded ch

Hello again, I want to follow up with a bit more information and historical perspective for those interested in how mounts have evolved and why. Today's mounts are different from previous generation m

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap211014.html With his 168mm refractor that I made from some one-off glass I had on hand. Maybe I should make some more of them? Anyway, congratulations Ignacio. You are mak

The revision log for the GTOCP3 states that for V2: Version V1 • Increased the range of the custom tracking rates from 99x to 999x. NOTE: Implemented in ASCOM V2 Driver v.5.10.00 and APCC v.1.6.0.0. I

I set up in NINA for the first time yesterday. I was asked to have NINA sync with the mount or vice vera. I synced NINA to the mount/telescope (AP1100 in park 4). It slewed fine during the day. Now tr

Very happy owner of a Mach1 GTO3 since 2012. That mount honestly never let me down! Since a year it’s permanently placed in my backyard roll-off roof observatory. Where I live light pollution is sever

I had a strange hiccup in one of my subs last night and was wondering if anyone has a suggestion of what may have happened. I was imaging the horse head nebula, and during one of the subs, it looks li

Congrats Ignacio!!! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻 😎 Pete

I would like to know from other owners of AP mounts if you are fully loaded and you grip the counter shaft and use a small amount though distinctive force through the DEC axis will you notice any disc

Sometime after 3AM this plastic part moved. What's its function? Where is it supposed to be? Is there a way to convince it to stay put?

Hi Astronuts, Just posted my final quickie image taken with the 12" F12.5 Mak-Cass. M31, familiar object, up close and personal. https://www.astrobin.com/hzazjs/ Rolando -- Roland Christen Astro-Physi

Been a lot of PHD2 discussion recently, so what's one more... Dry season is starting soon here with more clear skies, but it usually comes with some wind. I realize the real fix for wind is a wind bre

Was imaging last night with my Mach1/CP4/APCC Pro mount and when it came time for a meridian flip, the flip didn't occur at the time indicated in the NINA sequencer and several minutes later the mount

The wiki page Dec Arc Tracking in APCC has been updated by Howard Hedlund <howard@...>. Compare Revisions

Hi folks, I seem to be having issues with getting SGPro and APCC setup for successful meridian flips. In all cases, the mount stops tracking before the meridian limit is reached. There seem to be two

APCC v1.9 has a great new feature which offers "real time" (non-cached) modelled mount coordinates. This allows for closed loop satellite tracking (comparing the mount's current position to the satell

Tom, The setting you should configure is the Flip Offset, which moves the mount's flip point East of the meridian limit by the number of minutes you set. This gives the imaging application (SGPro) an

WOW!!! Should be the proper setting for the scope! Looking forward to Pacific based Honders images. 😎 Pete

If going by ship it might take a while for delivery. Might want to go by air instead. Chris

I posted the message below initially under the topic of "Smart Meridian Flip with NINA" but I'm starting a new thread on this topic because at this point it has nothing to do with the original problem